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B87 , what is total sun since 1997 for London per year please - summer and annual ?
Not sure of the annual totals, most have been below average but a couple have been near normal.
Summer-wise, the 97-06 decade averaged about 215 hrs per summer month, while the 07-16 decade averaged 180 hra in June, 170 in July, and just 150 in August.
Too sunny, not enough rain. I have a nice productive vegetable garden but my water bill is (relatively) astronomical. The evapotranspiration rates in the high desert are insane. I could easily be happy with 4-6 inches (100-150mm) of rain per month. This is the brilliance of the coastal Northeast US. You get that much rain but with sunny/partly sunny weather mixed in on a week to week basis. You pay with bouts of humidity in the summer, but not nearly as bad, or as long, as in the SE US.
The hottest 4 weeks of summer. It is just too hot for my tastes. I have to run my evaporative cooler/fan all night and it is loud. the shoulder of those 4 weeks I still run the fan most nights, but sometimes I can get by with a room fan. The saving grace is the lack of humidity.
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Winters are not cold/snowy enough in NYC.
Having grown up there, I agree. If it were even just a few degrees colder, the climate would be more bearable without a noticeable effect on the actual feel of coldness, but instead of hovering right at the freezing mark for much of the day you would have a drier, snowier experience rather than slushy, icy, freezing rain, rain after snowfall, ice storm misery, and still feel cold.
The thing is, being right on the coast and with the heat island effect, NYC is doomed to that phenomenon while you only have to go 10-20 miles inland for conditions to be nicer (colder, drier, snowier). Even the Bronx/Westchester is often a hair better than Manhattan with some storms dropping snow while the city gets freezing rain/ice.
Windy all the time. Too humid in summer. Prone to snow storms (I'd rather have more snow at a steady pace than getting slammed all at once and shutting the city down).
Not sure of the annual totals, most have been below average but a couple have been near normal.
Summer-wise, the 97-06 decade averaged about 215 hrs per summer month, while the 07-16 decade averaged 180 hra in June, 170 in July, and just 150 in August.
Thanks B87
on a further note ,i have looked at sunshine records using the Met office data (mapping) and have uncovered some interesting facts since 2001 .
Sunshine totals have actually INCREASED for London annually - by around 5% - so that is where your summer sun is going - it's being gained throughout the other months
E Essex /E Suffolk/E Kent shows a gain of between 6% and 7 %
London +5%
North West England +4% (used this to see if there was a nationwide contrast)
South Coast -2%
The last figure is a shocker . 20 year records might even show the south coast losing it's top spot to the Kent coast or even further round (although i didn't check the IOW)
years 2016 -2011 compared with 1981 -2010
years 2010 -2001 compared with 1971-2000
Those gains are considerable though ,you can check them all through on here - obviously it depends how on reliable their color coding is UK actual and anomaly maps - Met Office
there has also been a weird sunshine shift since around 2010/2011 with south coast resorts not leading the pack anymore on the ACTUAL value maps
I wouldn't trust those anomaly maps, most years since 2007 have seen below average sun here. One of the years only saw about 1350 hrs! I'll work it out once I'm back in Norwich later.
My climate in general is of course too cold/cool for my tastes, about what we are even talking about. Summers too short, last three summers have been esp cheesy, summer of 2017 the worst I remember. Completely without any warm spells.
In Serres our winters are dry in terms of precipitation and are warmer than my preferences. Our summers are hot and I hate that. I like our spring. I like the fact that there are enough frozen days in winter, thunderstorms during the year, some foggy days...
Temperature drops in late afternoon here can be annoying. In winter one always needs to have extra clothing, and in summer dew can settle before dark.
Sea breezes early in the season can be very chilling as well.
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